Monthly briefings · 3 published
Digests
A short, sourced brief every month: scholarly publications, exhibitions, new attributions, and the month's reading from the corpus. Every item traceable to a named publisher.
2026
- MAY
May 2026
Fifty-six articles ship across the month. The Mikkyō cluster closes — Fudō, Aizen, and the Five Wisdom Kings disambiguation — and six of the seven principal Kannon variants get their iconographic reading. Byōdō-in's 1053 Amida by Jōchō anchors Heian Pure Land sculpture; Tōdai-ji's 1203 Niō anchor the Kei-school collaboration. Hakuin's Daruma opens the late-Edo Zen portraiture sub-cluster.
- APR
April 2026
The first month of publishing. Twenty-seven articles ship — Pure Land and Kannon dominate, the Kei-school sculptural turn opens, and a methodological piece — How bodhi reads an image — frames the editorial discipline for the readers who arrive in the first wave.
- MAR
March 2026
March is the month the editorial contract gets written down. The four-source floor, the per-tier image policy, and the ColBase verbatim attribution decision are committed to the project's public operating manual. Foundations before publication.